Friday, December 18, 2015

Taking their Leave

Here are some of the houses & other buildings gone, or ready to disappear, in 2015. Most of these appeared on the blog, and most of the plans for their replacement have not yet been approved. Almost all of the plans are for luxury apartments. Of course, as per normal, many other lots in the neighborhood are busy right now with construction. Dumpsters, excavated sites, and shells of new buildings abound.

Some of the buildings below kept their early looks largely intact, while others lost their period details, covered over time with stucco, vinyl, asphalt or aluminum. Some of them had second, back houses behind them. Most of the houses kept their shape, and could be identified as old. Most of them bore witness to a booming, mid-to-late, nineteenth century borough, and housed workers active in the industries close by. Each house contained histories.